Category Archives: Social Studies
4th Grade Virginia Products & Industries Maps
Fourth graders at Laburnum Elementary have been learning about Virginia products and industries (VS.10b), so today students in Ms. Butler’s class created interactive Virginia product maps. First I posted a link on Google classroom to my Google Maps and a map layer (KML file) showing the different regions of Virginia (you can download it here)….
4th Grade Famous Americans Comics
Fourth graders at Laburnum Elementary have been studying 20th Century famous Virginians (VS.9), so today students in Ms. Robinson’s class chose one of them and created a comic about their accomplishments. I posted a link to StoryboardThat on Google classroom, and once students accessed the website, they clicked the “Create a Storyboard” button. I explained…
1st Grade Famous Americans
First graders at Davis Elementary have been learning about famous Americans including George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Eleanor Roosevelt, Martin Luther King, Jr., George Washington Carver, and Benjamin Franklin (SOL1.2). Today students in Ms. Gerrard’s class used ABCYa! Storymaker to draw and write about a famous American of their choice. This easy-to-use webtool is a great…
2nd Grade American Indian Maps
Second graders at Laburnum Elementary have been studying the American Indians (SOL2.2) and map skills (SOL2.4), so today students in Ms. Satterfield’s class created American Indian maps. I posted a link to My Google Maps on Google classroom and pointed out that students can always get back to any maps they create by using that…
4th Grade Biography Blogs & Voki
Fourth graders at Davis Elementary have been reading nonfiction, especially biographies and autobiographies (SOL4.6), so today students in Ms. White’s class created biography blogs with an embedded animated talking person from Voki. First I showed them how to log into their blogs. Every student and teacher in Henrico has their own blog. Once we were…
4th Grade Biography Blogs & Voki
Fourth graders at Davis Elementary have been reading nonfiction, especially biographies and autobiographies (SOL4.6), so today students in Ms. White’s class created biography blogs with an embedded animated talking person from Voki. First I showed them how to log into their blogs. Every student and teacher in Henrico has their own blog. Once we were…
4th Grade Civil War Marching Maps
Fourth graders at Holladay Elementary have been learning about the Civil War in Social Studies (VS.7) and measurement in math (SOL4.7) so today we created Civil War Marching Maps using My Google Maps. First the students chose two major Civil War battles to mark on the map (Bull Run, Fredericksburg, Richmond, Appomattox, or Hampton Roads)….
4th Grade Revolutionary War Maps
Fourth graders at Davis Elementary have been learning about the Revolutionary War (VS.5), so today students in Ms. White’s class created Revolutionary War maps using My Google Maps. First I posted a link to My Google Maps on Google Classroom. With My Google Maps, anyone with a Google account can create their own customized maps….
2nd Grade U.S. Geography Maps
Second graders at Davis Elementary are learning about map skills and United States geography (SOL2.5). Today students in Ms. McGovern’s class created their own customized Google maps showing the important features like the Great Lakes, the Mississippi River, and the Rocky Mountains. First I posted a link to My Google Maps on Google classroom. The…
4th Grade Revolutionary War Comics
Fourth graders at Davis Elementary have been studying the Revolutionary War in Social Studies (VS.5), and they have been learning how to formulate questions about nonfiction text in Reading (SOL4.6b). So today students in Ms. White’s class created Revolutionary War comics and asked their classmates questions about them. We used StoryboardThat to make the comics…
